Apple iPhone 8 Plus Review

0.phoneArenaposted on28 Sep 2017, 08:32

So who should be buying an iPhone Plus this year? Well, let's take a look at what you can expect from the phone's hardware, and Apple's latest software, as we start breaking things down and answering that question.

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*clears throat* lmao, how those the iphone 8 score a 9.2? even a dedicated iphone fanboy like me can't believe my eyes. The stale design alone is enough to take a full 1 point from the iphone 8. Meanwhile the X is another story altogether though.

Well it seems to have made improvements with battery life, speakers, the display is using slightly newer tech that's more subtle and a new processor that helps things move right along smoothly while being more efficient. Google/ Android needs to take note on how to get an OS running properly without any f**king drain from the phone just sitting there after a fresh restart.

According to this site's battery test, you pick up the phone in the morning, start up the screen and never let it go from your hand until like 11 hours later when the battery dies, watching videos, playing games and surfing the web all this time :))

This year it's a pro for the iPhone 8's to have wireless charging. Yet all the other years, for all the other smartphones on this site that had wireless charging, never had a pro for wireless charging. So why does Apple get a pro for wireless charging now?
You also list lot of storage as a pro. Yet many other smartphones have lots of expandable storage. If you buy the 64 GB version's, then you certainly don't have lots of storage.

What about a ton of a low resolution LCD display. The 8 plus only has a full HD display, compared to other flagships. Yet you rated that iPhone 8 the same score of 9.2, and it only has a HD display. Wouldn't that be a con. Clearly your site is easily bought.

Here is what is funny. It was brought to the attention of Victor with links to Youtube videos showing PA's test is wrong.

Victor says, those test are a joke because and I quote, "PhoneArena uses a scientific method which adjust the phones brightness equally to 200NITS".

How many people who buy phones, even adjust the brightness at all? Most just use the default.

So any method that changes any variable makes your method a joke just like anyone else.

Fact, many people will manually adjust the brightness up or down, but they are not the majority and no one has a way to pic a specific brightness level.

People adjust based on what looks good to them.

PA claims and I quote, " all phone tests are done with the phone at factory settings"

That is a false, because Victor own statement says they use a scientific method to "set the brightness to 200NITS".

The fact is, Samsung phones at least the S and Note even with the brightness set to 100% and with the resolution set to 1440p, the phone still has better battery-life based on side by side test on real world using.

This is based on most test showing 2 hours of web, 2 hours of gaming and 1-2 hours of recording.

Any and all drop, speed and charging test should all be looked at with the proverbial grain of salt, because all test can be made to make any phone you want look good or bad.

Every test so far basically proves that the iPhone is only called a "flagship" because it is the only phone they make.

Uncle_gadget, you are a dumbf**k. Different phones have different brightness levels. At 50% brightness one phone might be 250 nits, and another might be 500 nits. So for a fair test, all tests are done at a standardized brightness.

You are too dumb to realize that, and go on to spew bulls**t. Your ass must be jealous of all the s**t that comes out of your mouth.

I don't know why other phones always do so well in other battery tests because my friends with Android phones always seem to have crap battery life compared to my iPhone SE. The only one better had a Sony (not sure which one). We can literally be around each other all day doing the same things and the Galaxy/HTC guys seem to struggle far more. That's my "real world" experience. So seems it varies and isn't just PA with different results.

"Your friends". First off, you are not with "your friends" 100% of the day and can gauge their actual battery life on daily usage.

Next, you can't gauge anyones usage based on such a small circle of people.

Battery life will vary for s slew of reasons.

But Apple for example not including a fast charger in the box, forcing you to pay 3 times the normal cost of solutions from other oems that are better and faster because they want to make money off dumb people and no one speaks against them speaks volumes of how stupid Apple fans are in general.

love how you resort to calling people names based on phone choice. Second, what kills android phone battery life are 2 things: standby time because the OS is still horrible for managing itself in the background and also Samsung phones typically slowdown with junk after the first 2 months. They need to be restarted regularly.

Agreed on both those points, iPhones can drain fairly quickly when you're using them for something intensive (I guess most devices do) but standby time is exceptional and that's somewhere I see Android devices lacking. I've got an old iPad 2 from 2012 I can literally leave on for weeks and the battery goes down about 1 or 2 % per day, oddly the iPad Air2 I got to "replace" it drains a little faster. My friend's S8 is already bugging her with lag after 6 months, she actually said exactly that to me yesterday, she's not a technical person particularly but notices it - maybe I should make a video comparing it to my iPhone SE to show people some "reality", no doubt she's using it wrong... To quote Steve Jobs. ;)

Well it must be even worse than I thought then if it’s not even 6 months, I haven’t used it, just going by what she said, I’ll see her at the weekend and video it as evidence for you people that think I’m making things up, I don’t have an agenda unlike the Apple hate brigade on this site.

Yeah, in another thread you called me a fanboy, take a look in the mirror there, you seem to be a little mad bro. Very obviously an Android fanboy, riled by everything Apple and their users.

This is an Apple review, you seem to hate them, do your blood pressure a favour and stay out if people with the device in question upset you. From the quantity and length of your posts I'm beginning to think you're TechieXP, better grammar aside.

You seem to have completely missed the part where I've said we can "literally be around each other all day long", very similar usage yet they're complaining about battery by 6pm or whenever. I know because I take the piss out of them and their "amazing Android phones", we talk about it a lot, they're openly Android fans which is fine, they never seem to be able to answer about their poor battery life or even lag on a six month old S8! :\

I'm actually considering the next Pixel if it's good, I don't find anything interesting about the new Apple phones, I'm not a fanboy, I just use what works for me. I'd have preferred the "X" to be more SE sized as that would have been far better suited to less bezel and a larger screen, with very little competition.

iPhone 8 Plus review: "Slightly more pronounced expansion occurs when we look at the weight of these phones, with the iPhone 8 Plus expanding from 188 to 202 grams. Still, even that growth isn't more than the mass of a few coins, and this year's iPhone Plus doesn't really feel larger or heavier in any way you're likely to subjectively notice."

Galaxy Note 8 review: "Another thing to keep in mind is that this is a heavy phone. The Note 8 comes in just shy of 200g. That's heavier than either of those GS8 brothers, as well as heavier than the Note 7"

According to PA, Note 8 at 195gms is heavy device. Even though it being a bigger device with bigger display, bigger battery & SPen

Technically we're hearing about even worse battery life on the standard iPhone 8 and somehow that gets the same score. If you insist on giving this one the same score, think about all the disadvantages of the base model before giving both a 9.2/10.

Hell, last year all I seen are iPhone Pluses in hand, it's clear which one likely wins in battery life.

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